I．Required courses:
1．Intensive reading: 8 periods per week
The purpose of intensive reading courses is to practice skills of the reading and writing synthetically. This course includes Chinese Bopomofo, Chinese basic phrasing and sentence construction, short composition etc. It is a foundation to improve every skill.
2．Oral: 8 periods per week
Set the special training about “talking” for students. Pay attention to train the abilities of using Chinese to communicate, in order to talk with Chinese fluently in a shot time.
3．Listening: 4 periods per week?
Set the special training about “listening” for students. Make the students be able to acquaint with the Chinese expression method as soon as possible, provide the assurance for the fluency communication.
There are 4 lessons in every A.M. and 5 days in a week, so 20 lessons per week..
Now, in 3 months class, we choose “Chinese for beginners” (Beijing Language & Culture University press) as the books of Intensive reading course, “A ?course in spoken Chinese“(Beijing Language & Culture University press) are the books of Oral course, and the kits of the books will be use for listening books.
II．Elective
1. Orthoepy: 6 periods
Aim at the characteristics of students from different countries; rectify their pronunciation and dialect, make sure the students can speak pure Chinese.
2. Handwriting: 8 periods
Teach the knowledge and skills of handwriting; improve the abilities of students to appreciate Chinese handwriting.
3. Serial courses of Chinese culture: 8 periods
Introduce Chinese civilization over 5,000 years and abundant colorful Chinese culture.
4. Shadowboxing: 16 periods
Teach a full set of shadowboxing; expand the traditional culture of China.
All electives will be set up in the afternoon. According to their demands, the students can feel free to choose anyone of them above.
III．Teaching practice of language cultural
Xian Jiaotong University locates in Xian which is Called Chang'an in ancient times. Xian is one of the birthplaces of the ancient civilization in the Yellow River Basin area of the country. Xian was the beginning of the ancient Silk Road. During Xian's 3,000 year development, 12 Dynasties placed their capitals here, leaving behind a great deal of relics and sites.
1. East: In the east of Xian, the museum of Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses is praised as 'the eighth major miracle of the world'. The Huaqing pool, which is the place Yang Guifei bathing in, is famous for hot spring. Banpo Village Remains is from the Neolithic Age, 6,000 years ago.
2. West: In the west, the Famen Temple holds the finger bones of Sakyamuni. Qianling is a tomb which buried Lizhi (Emperor Gao Zong) and empress WuZetian together. The Xianyang museum collects the terra cotta warrior of Han Dynasty and ancient construction of Qin Dynasty.
3. Incity: In the city, the Shanxi history museum is a showcase of ancient civilizations. The Forest of Stone Steles built in Song Dynasty that holds 3,000 stone steles of different periods. The City Wall of the Ming Dynasty is the largest and most intact Ming Dynasty castle in the world. Xian also has too many famous places such as Dayan Tower, mosque…etc. Silk Road, the most famous trade routes linking the economy and trade between China and Western country from Western Han Dynasty, the beginning of the road is in west suburb of Xian.
4. North: In the north, the Hukou waterfall of the yellow river is the only yellow waterfall on earth.
We will organize the students to do the practice mentioned above (Total 4 times in 4 days). Visit the east line, the west line, the north line and city respectively. In the process of it, make sure the students can understand multiracial brilliant history culture in China; improve their communication skills in Chinese.
IV．Purpose
After three months studying, a student can be familiar with basic knowledge of the Chinese characters structure, basic construction, simple compound sentence and 800 common words. He can also read a short article and use some common words to talk with Chinese.
